I was intrigued by Jack Dangermond’s article in the Winter 2014/2015 edition of ArcNews entitled Geospatial Technology and the Future of the City. Page 12 of this article really caught my attention.To paraphrase Jack: GIS has traditionally been focused on...

We’ve mentioned before in this blog how, too often, we feel expert GIS predictions are focused on the new unproven shiny toys: VR, AR etc. A change is in the air for location technology. New demand for information about location, driven by the popularity of...

Two recent announcements caught our attention: “The Google Earth API has been deprecated as of December 12th, 2014. The API will continue to work on supported browsers until December 12th, 2015, and will shut down on that date.” See the full Google Earth...

In this post I am going to return some of the discussions we started last year with our “Is GIS Splitting” post. The general consensus from these conversations was that we are seeing a polarization of GIS. Traditional GIS remains solidly in place, but a...

The demand for disconnected GIS comes directly as a result of the new freedoms afforded by mobility. Any GIS user working out of the office on laptop, smartphone or tablet will find themselves from time to time with none, or poor Internet connectivity. In these...

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